<span name="style_bold">What to do after an ANOVA: Examples in food science. </span>It is common to find scientific publications with incorrect uses of the analysis of variance (ANOVA), as well as incorrect applications of tests after finding significance with the ANOVA. This paper describes the fundamentals of the ANOVA and of the tests that can be applied afterwards, and presents practical examples in food science, with the objective of showing the reader a right selection and application of such tests.It is common to find scientific publications with incorrect uses of the analysis of variance (ANOVA), as well as incorrect applications of tests after finding significance with the ANOVA. This paper describes the fundamentals of the ANOVA and of the tests that can be applied afterwards, and presents practical examples in food science, with the objective of showing the reader a right selection and application of such tests.

ANOVA; mean comparison; Dunnet; Duncan; Tukey; orthogonal contrasts